If someone described Animal Kwackers to you - basically a regionally-accented Glam Rock slant on The Banana Splits with an ITV budget - you'd assume they just weren't very good at making stuff up. But as @lisaandandrew.bsky.social can confirm, it's all too real... timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

With @lisaandandrew.bsky.social on Animal Kwackers, @markauthor.bsky.social on Noggin The Nog, @adamsleslie.bsky.social on Mysterious Cities Of Gold, @pablovich.bsky.social Transformers, @skepticcanary.bsky.social Blockbusters, @gralefrit.bsky.social on Scooby Doo. timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

Of course, what everyone remembers the most about Big John Little John - over and above anything about the contents of the show itself - is every single word of the overlong theme song... timworthington.org/2018/01/03/l...

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976) Respectable thirtysomething high school teacher accidentally takes a swig from the Fountain Of Youth while on holiday, leaving him with a propensity to turn into a twelve-year-old version of himself at inopportune moments.

I saw them play live at the Abbey Park Show in Leicester 🤣 I think it was either in 77 or 78 if I recall

If someone described Animal Kwackers to you - basically a regionally-accented Glam Rock slant on The Banana Splits with an ITV budget - you'd assume they just weren't very good at making stuff up. But as @lisaandandrew.bsky.social can confirm, it's all too real... timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

With @lisaandandrew.bsky.social on Animal Kwackers, @markauthor.bsky.social on Noggin The Nog, @adamsleslie.bsky.social on Mysterious Cities Of Gold, @pablovich.bsky.social Transformers, @skepticcanary.bsky.social Blockbusters, @gralefrit.bsky.social on Scooby Doo. timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

NEW! A long time before he started spending his Sundays singing hymns in the middle of dual carriageways, Harry Secombe spent almost the entire sixties heading the smash stage musical Pickwick - and I'm on @goonpod.bsky.social looking at this lost phenomenon... timworthington.org/2025/08/15/g...

Still one of TV's greatest theme tunes.

Essential reading for anyone interested in British SF or the development of British TV in the 20th century @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @tenacrefilms.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/books/tie-in...

Goon Pod Film Club: SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) www.patreon.com/posts/shaun-...

From Pogles' Wood and Pipkins to Pob's Programme and Press Gang, a brand new look at the good, the bad and the extra school of children's television. Available in all good bookshops now! timworthington.org/2024/10/08/t...

If someone described Animal Kwackers to you - basically a regionally-accented Glam Rock slant on The Banana Splits with an ITV budget - you'd assume they just weren't very good at making stuff up. But as @lisaandandrew.bsky.social can confirm, it's all too real... timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

New! @lisaandandrew.bsky.social on Animal Kwackers, @markauthor.bsky.social on Noggin The Nog, @adamsleslie.bsky.social on Mysterious Cities Of Gold, @pablovich.bsky.social Transformers, @skepticcanary.bsky.social Blockbusters, @gralefrit.bsky.social on Scooby Doo. timworthington.org/2025/03/04/t...

Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge join me for a chat about Geoff Love's Big Terror Movie Themes, Plug from The Bash Street Kids' solo comic and a John Inman album that it's safe to say reflects the attitudes of the era it was made... timworthington.org/2022/08/24/l...

A sublime end to Wolf Hall, a painful episode to watch. And I'm glad they didn't show the execution. I'm planning a full rewatch in the not too distant future. #WolfHall

Bringing you such delicacies as these

...casting light upon wonders like this!

...and the peas. All of the peas

...and aspicmungous "things" like this

My wife and I are at the age where we wake up, drink coffee and just continuously clear our throats for 45 mins.

How exquisite are these illuminations of Queen #CatherineofAragon & King #HenryVIII? From Catherine’s Book of Hours by Jean Pichore, c.1509, likely commissioned for her wedding by her sisters. @onthetudortrail.bsky.social thank you so much for showing me! guenther-rarebooks.com/artworks/984...

What a glorious second episode of #Wolfhall. I wanted to reach in and hug Cromwell at the end.

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr by Richard Brooks for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Donna Rees on Mr. Benn, Chris Shaw on Film Fun, Suzy Robinson on The Wombles, Lydia Mizon on Fun House and Deborah Tracey on Emu's All-Live Pink Windmill Show. timworthington.org/2024/11/16/t...

Cadbury's Whole Nut - a bar that has apparently somehow existed since 1933 without *anyone ever noticing it*.